While we were waiting for SuperTuesday-II, Petreaus was giving us declassified peons his metrics for his upcoming SuperMario week.
Remember the overflowing, post-invasion set of ideas on how an 'enlightened' distribution of Iraq's oil could be accomplished without afflicting a nascent democracy with handout-cronyism?
Today, we hail even informal attempts merely to 'share revenue'.
Al-qa'ida is down, but not out. Those civilians who couldn't flee are being protected, to some improved degree. Judging what is "enough" is a matter of feel - it is, but ... at some point there has to be a red line on that.Today, we hail even informal attempts merely to 'share revenue'.
One guesses from the lack of detail that there will be fancy numbers counting on the Iraqi military and police readiness.
I haven't seen anything to change the five-year buildout estimate that was given by the General who studied that effort and wrote a long report about it.
Of clear-hold-build, it looks like there won't be much focus on "build", except CLCs or something. For instance, every 'interim' goal for electricity generation has been missed since it all started - I think we can say that without checking for accuracy, even. The GOI is spending, but corruption is rife.
Remember the overflowing set of ideas on how an 'enlightened' distribution of Iraq's oil could be accomplished without afflicting a nascent democracy with handout-cronyism? Today, we hail even informal attempts to 'share revenue'.
